Meet the Ranchers
Our Team
Mr. Franklin Dowell is the Ranch Manager at both the Cartersville and Ringgold ranches in Georgia. He also helped start up the Rollins Ranch in White, Georgia, and was manager there for 1.5 years until the current manager was hired. He began his career with Rollins Ranches in 1998 as manager of their Cartersville ranch. Prior to joining Rollins Ranches, he managed the Marechal Ranch in Richards, TX for almost 15 years, and before that, the A-Bar Ranch in Huntsville, TX for 5 years. He graduated from Texas A&M in 1976. Achievements include being Vice President and then President of the Red Carpet Cattlemen’s Association for 3 years and a board member for 10 years. He is currently on the board of directors for the Bartow Co. Farm Bureau in Cartersville, GA.
Tony Petty is the Ranch Manager at Rollins Ranch, White in Georgia. He was born and raised in Calhoun, Georgia and began his agricultural career in 1995 with the UGA Research and Education Center in Rome, Georgia. He spent 30 years with UGA, when the opportunity of ranch manager became available at the Rollins Ranch White in Rydal. When he is not at the ranch working, Tony enjoys spending time with his family and operating their family market goat farm.
He has been married to his wife Leah for 24 years and have two children, Michala who is married to Josh, a soldier currently deployed to Iraq, and Hunter who is a Freshman at Northern Oklahoma College.
Tony has been with Rollins Ranch since 2022 and has enjoyed his time managing the beautiful 1,200 acres situated in the rolling hills of North Georgia.
Jordan Jackson is the Ranch Manager at Rollins Ranch Ringgold. Jordan is originally from Rockmart, Georgia and started as a ranch hand for the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Seedstock operation located in Salcoa Valley Farms in Fairmount, Georgia. Jordan worked in operations for four years and then took over as Director of Operations when the outfit was acquired by American Cattle Enterprise.
Jordan spent two years managing the 4,500 acre property until the operation was moved to Louisiana.
David Milburn is the Cattle Manager at Rollins Ranch Blue Cypress in Florida. He has been a working ranch manager for over twenty-five years. His passion has always been the cow/calf side of the business. He has managed a large-scale cattle operation in Florida where he also worked with hunting leases, watermelon farmers, and sod harvesters. He and his wife Bonnie moved to West Texas to manage a cow/calf and whitetail deer ranch. When the ranch sold, he relocated to Knox City, Texas where he helped run a yearling operation. In his spare time, he and his wife enjoy hunting and spending time with family. He values leadership, team building, and good work ethic..
Colt Lacina is the Ranch Manager at Rollins Ranch Voor Jar and Griffith. Colt grew up in Lott, a small Central Texas town known for yearling and cotton farming. As the son of a cattle buyer, his earliest memories are of watching his Dad sort cattle. By the age of 7, Colt had earned his first paycheck from the Hallettsville Livestock Market, and he and his brother were featured in the kids corner of American Cowboy magazine.
Homeschooled from the 7th grade, Colt helped with backgrounding yearlings, worked at local livestock markets, and helped with his family’s herd of 800 cows, scattered across Southeast Texas. After high school, he then worked on a backgrounding and feeding operation in Gonzales, Texas. In 2015, he moved to South Florida, and began day working. He was welcomed onboard full time at Rollins Ranches in 2021. He currently manages the heifer development unit, the Griffith Ranch, and the Voor Jaar cow-calf unit in Okeechobee County.